It's amazing how a baby can change in three months. Here's a recap...for future reference.
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| Tiny bottles at first! |
Eating
We've never had a problem with eating! At three months she's at 5 ounces every four hours or so. She gets very worked up and angry if you take the bottle out of her mouth. She'll often growl and squeeze her hands together as if to say, "give me that back!"
The problem we did have, however, was with the formula. In three months, this kid has been on 6 different formulas. We started out with regular old Enfamil but we discovered shortly after birth that Lyla is a spitter. After spitting up every bottle for a few days, our doctor suggested to try Similac Soy. This was no better. In fact, not only did she still spit up, but the soy stinks and stains everything! Every outfit needed to be sprayed down after we took it off of her. After getting a recommendation for Good Start Soy, we tried that with no success. Then came the worst of all. The doctor has us try the Enfamil AR which has rice added to help weigh it down. This was not a good move. Lyla was miserable and often needed suppositories to make her feel better...not something Eric and I wanted to do. After just a week of that, I decided she was too unhappy to keep her on this so we tried the Similac Sensitive. This seemed to work. After one bottle she was so much better. Still, the spitting up did not end, so we went to our last resort, the Hypoallergenic stuff, Similac Alimentum. I had mixed feelings about this one. While I hoped it would work, I was also terrified that I would go broke on this extremely expensive formula. After 4 days, more spit up than ever, and a call to the doctor, we went back to the Similac Sensitive. She's still a spitter, but she's a happy spitter. The doctor says it is what it is and if I need to go to work with spit up on my shirt then so be it. She will eventually grow out of it.
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Good sleeper when Dad isn't trying
to play with her. |
Sleeping
In her first 6 weeks there was none of this. We originally had her in a pack'n play in our room. On the 3rd night at home, I put her in the rock'n play sleeper (a no-no because she wasn't flat on her back) since the pack and play wasn't working out. I woke up that morning, looked at the clock, and saw that I had been sleeping for 6 hours! I panicked. I wondered why she didn't get up to eat. Obviously she was fine, but this 6 hour sleep period was a fluke.
A few weeks in, and zero sleep, I broke my number one rule. I put her in bed with me, another no-no. While many families choose the "family bed", I was not one of them. I eventually gave in and after her late night feeding, she would just sleep in my arms. As I talked to other mom's I knew, I found out this wasn't that unusual. While any doctor would frown upon this, I did what I could just to get some sleep. At six weeks I started to worry that when I went back to work, this sleeping in my arms business wouldn't work. I decided it was time to start sleep training. I had a wonderful book to help me through. The first week was a little rough, but eventually she figured it out. Since she didn't seem to like the pack and play, I started sleep training her in her crib. I figured why do it twice. So for a few weeks, I slept on the loft couch right outside her room. At this point she was really only getting up to eat one or two times a night. By the time I went back to work at 10 weeks, she was going down at 7:00pm and getting up to eat around 3am. Suddenly, shortly after that, she gave up the middle of the night feeding and now sleeps from about 7-8pm until 7am (other than the mornings I work which I wake her up at 6:15). I am so happy that she is a good sleeper. I am sure just once I get used to this, she'll change it up on me, but for now, I will take the 12 hours a night!
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| My big, but little, gal. |
Size
At her last appointment Lyla weighed in at 10 pounds, 22 inches. She's in the 50th percentile for both. She's still such a little peanut, which I love!
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Doesn't look like she is going to
be a lefty.
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Milestones
According to my book, Lyla should be:
Smiling
Putting her hands together
Following object with her eyes
Cooing and Giggling
Holding her head up
Pushing off with her hands when placed on her tummy
Rolling over one way
Holding objects in her hands
Well, we've reached all but rolling over. Since she's spit up since day one, we've always been afraid to put her on her belly. Now, if we try, she just screams. She definitely doesn't like to be on her tummy, but we'll work on it.
